Example sentences of "[was/were] prepare for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theses advocated both support for national liberation movements and agitation to ensure that workers and peasants were prepared for the Soviet revolution which was to follow , a policy contradiction which was never resolved . |
| 2 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 3 | So the nurses were prepared for the worst , also . |
| 4 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 5 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 6 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 7 | The package , called Catholic Connections to Media Literacy , was prepared for The Catholic Communication Campaign of the United States Catholic Conference in collaboration with the National Catholic Educational Association . |
| 8 | But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 9 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 10 | The report was prepared for the United Nations in advance of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for 1992 . |
| 11 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 12 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 13 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 14 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 15 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 16 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 17 | ‘ Orders were orders ! ’ he roared , looking darkly at the friar , before going on to regale both him and the horses with an account of the meal his poor wife was preparing for the coming Sunday . |
| 18 | By 1934 the Labour Party was Preparing for the next election and the delegates at Southport resisted the attempts of the Socialist League to change the programme For Socialism and Peace into a radical appeal for a rapid transformation to socialism . |
| 19 | Its purpose was to prepare for the coming struggle between good order under a monarchy , and the revolutionary socialism of the sort to which republics often sink-until , that is , conditions deteriorate to the point where people are ready to revolt against the system and return to the rule of an even more powerful dictator . |
| 20 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 21 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |